Re: [Boost-build] Generating multiple CPP/H targets from a singlesource

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Generating multiple CPP/H targets from a singlesource
From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-16 07:57:22

Fabien Chêne wrote:

[snip]

> Unfortunately, I run into another problem with this patch. If bjam is
> invoked from the toplevel of my project, it fails bawling something
> like: 'actions too long (more than 102400)'. Indeed there are a lot of
> sources in this library, with very long path. Apparently, something --
> perhaps not relative to the correctness of the patch -- causes the
> command line to increase a bit. Is it possible to increase MAXLINE ?
> (With MAXLINE in jam.h set to 112400, it works for me).

You could try "bjam --abbreviate-paths" to see if it helps (IIRC Volodya has 
also previously mentioned "bjam --md5", but haven't tried that myself).

/ Johan